fracture

They took him to al-Shifa hospital, where Hadeel says she was told her husband had a skull fracture and was in a coma.

“If you don’t live in Los Angeles, you might think that there’s no community and that everything is fractured,” said Pobocha.

He suffered a broken leg and a fractured skull.

A fractured ankle late in career and lower back pain so severe he could hardly get out of bed, led to his retirement in 2006, less than six months before Kopitar’s NHL debut.

Though Smith’s fractured right hand has healed, he is still in the process of rebuilding strength and stamina after missing the last few weeks.